Year: 2014

Come inside to watch a video from Randall Paul, which some pundits are saying will end his 2016 candidacy because he dared question Dick Cheney, the Iraq War and the military industrial complex. I am not so sure. David Corn explains:

Critics of President George W. Bush and Cheney have long assailed the pair for pushing a WMD-centered case for war that was false and questioned their reasons and motives for invading Iraq. But it's notable that a member of the Senate who might be a leading contender for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination thinks that the most recent Republican vice president snookered the nation into war to boost profits for a company he once steered.

This is not news to us. We long believed that this was what Cheney did. We believed it then, in 2002 and 2003. And we were proven right. But we are dirty liberals, right? Who cares if we are always right. We're "libruls!!!!!" Now that a libertarian-tea-party-conservative-clinton-hater confused Republican is saying it, finally, the notion that Dick Cheney committed treason may finally sink in.

Looks like I was right yesterday when I said someone had flipped on Christie. I was just wrong on who had flipped. Instead of Kelly, it appears that David Wildstein has flipped. Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is getting a lot of pub recently. Hell, even he is speaking about illegal immigration being an act of love rather than a crime, which should eliminate him as a contender for the GOP nomination. But establishment types are talking him up because he is all they have right now. Christie is gone (see above). The rest of the bland midwestern governors stand no chance against Hillary, and that is assuming they all win reelection (and some of them won't). So who is left besides Ted Cruz and Rand Paul? Jeb Bush. But don't get your tickets for Clinton v. Bush II: The Sequel just yet. Also, this New Yorker cover is awesome...

I missed this on Friday because I was busy with work, but the US Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate Governor Christie's involvement.

"The convening of the grand jury is evidence that the U.S. Attorney's investigation has progressed beyond an inquiry and moved to the criminal phase." Newark Star Ledger: "Legal experts say the hearing of grand-jury testimony is an important development that means U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman has accumulated enough evidence to move past a preliminary inquiry into the controversial lane closings and into a grand jury investigation of them."

Indeed. If there wasn't something there, there would be no grand jury investigation. Another question: why did Chris Christie's administration trash Bridgett Kelly in their "independent" report? She seems to be a key player in all of this, and could sink Christie if there really is something there there. It seems stupid to antagonize her. Well, the trashing of Kelly and the convening of the Grand Jury tells me that Kelly has flipped and is providing state's evidence. So now Christie et al are trashing her credibility.